* David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> [120328 11:22]: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:58:00 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:19 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: > [snip] > > > Or have I broken my system? > > > > Probably. There is rarely a good reason for having libraries in world. > > For us programmers it is often essential that we have one or more > library packages in world, since we might be using that library (or > those libraries) in projects we are developing. > > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package in > world should be a candidate for depclean. > -- > Regards, > > Dave [RLU #314465]
Yes, exactly. And more specifically, if the two versions of fltk are slotted it makes me even more surprised that portage wants to depclean the 1.3.0 version. Thanks, Todd
